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Chapter titles/Suggested grade levels

Suggested questions/Activities

Coal:
Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 Danger/Safety in mines.
Environment vs. Man.
What was the main danger for miners?
How did the mines effect a person’s health?

What type of equipment did they use in mine rescue and who were the people that were involved with the mine rescue station?

Grade 10 Coal Unions: Mine Rescue
How are these two topics related?

How did workers organize protection for themselves at the turn of the century?

Do you feel that this type of pioneering in the field of unions have helped the workers of today?

Grade 8 Use the whole Coal site to help answer the following:
How does the physical environment influence people’s way of life?

Include how location(why was this location chosen), transportation(bull trains, turkey trial), settlement(who settled the area) and the economy (trade)are effected by the physical environment of a town?

Irrigation:The Boundary Waters Treaty
Grade 5, 8 The Boundary Waters Treaty
How did the St. Mary's canal aroused international problems between Canada and the USA?

What was the result of the conflict between USA and Canada over the St. Mary's canal?

The War Years:
Grade 10 Boer War
What was Canada's involvement? Do you think it was right to have Canada contribute to the war effort in South Africa in 1899?

W.W.I- compared to Canada's contribution in W.W.I -what was Lethbridge’s war effort?

W.W.II- POW camp.

What nationalities were in POW camps in Lethbridge and surrounding area? Why were they put there?

What type of work did the POW’s do?

Why is it important to know that there were POW’s in Lethbridge?

Do you think they are part of our local history? Why/why not?

   

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